Re: Caching and JS - Bug?

[Andy Augustine <aug@ix.netcom.com>]

At 08:50 AM 2/29/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Is anybody else having this problem:
>
>1. Write a JS
>2. Load it into Navigator
>3. Change and save the script
>4. Press the reload button in Navigator
>5. View source - navigator has loaded the new JS
>6. try to execute the new JS
>BUG- the old script is executed.
>
>This happens to me frequently, sometimes navigator will even 
>execute a script from 2-3 saves previously.
>

Try clicking on the 'location:   ' field at the top of the navigator and
hitting [ENTER].  This should force the new code to be excecuted.

>Its real annoying, but more importantly it goes to the issue of 
>how stable Navigator and JS are in general. I'm beginning to get 
>the feeling that JS may not be ready for any serious commercial 
>use.
>Any thought?

If you're careful and keep on top of the bugs, there's no reason you can't
implement JS in commercial sites.  Right now, I have the luxury of
developing an INTRAnet for a company that has a site liscence for Netscape
2.0.  I get to do my coding with the knowledge that everybody has the same
platform and browser. <g> Without doing server side browser detects (for AOL
and such), it might be a gamble to use too much JS for a while.

Andy Augustine
www.his.com/~smithers/freq/beta/index.html

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